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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Suppressing RACF messages and security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM Studio

A new DVM server parameter will be added to suppress the RACF log messages and SMF recording for internal DVM calls. This new approach is to redesign the way to handle both the security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM S...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

PAW: Add drill-through view to workbench

Please provide the possibility to add a view, which is opened by a Drillthrough (via ReturnViewHandle), to a workbench. It is possible to add such a view, if one is executing a drillthrough in a book. But it not possible to add it as a new tab to ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Recovery Expert option to externalise the Recovery Health asset list (Image Copy and Log Dataset names) in Batch and Online

Recovery Expert has a validation and Recovery Health option. As an extension to this option it will really help the user base if there is an option provided to externalise the Image Copies and the LOG datasets, as a list, that will be used for the...
8 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Generate UETRs for MX during MSIF sending, not in the MER Data Entry (DNIMX&DNIFINPLUS)

1. For T2 MSGs that we enter in DNIMX domain the field for UETR is not mandatory so we can leave it empty but when we send the MSG from MER to InterAct and to SWIFTNet the UETR is not calculated and field PmtId – UETR is empty even if we put CD co...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 5 Future consideration

Connection between forms in Web

It would be very usefull if on WEB it would be possible to link another form to a postion. This is possible on classic application but not on Web, which is important. For example in form NB12 we have account BAB02 and I want to click on this accou...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

A way to save user-specific context in PAW

PAW is missing a way (like cookies) to save selected dimension elements per user, e.g. to provide a user-specific default value. With this it should also be possible to keep elements selected from one PAW workbook to another.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration